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At 04:26 AM 3/19/2002, Claude Voit wrote: >As the faq sais I bought the boss fv50L but it never worked smooth: I >reached 127 at 4/5 of the action wich made slight fdb moves (127 to 110 >) a complete guess work. for a lot of people, that is perfect, because they want to be sure they have reached 100% feedback so having some headroom at the top of the range helps them feel more confident about it. And depending on when the EDP was built and various hardware tolerances in the pedal and EDP, it may not have this much play at the end for everybody. I suggest that boss pedal because it is pretty cheap, it seems to be available everywhere, it's reasonably well made, and I know it works pretty well in every echoplex. I'm happy to add more options to that list if you have other good suggestions. Being able to accurately select the feedback with a pedal seemed to be hard no matter what pedal you used, that is why we added the nice feedback display for Loop 4! >had to solder a small trim pot in paralell and adjust untill full press >was exactly 127 >so may I suggest that we revaluate the proper vol pedal model an exact >value feel free to suggest something. >I still dont understand why you didnt follow the "synth controler" path >and implement the edp with the usual EV5 (CV TRS pedal) that seems to be >a standard (works fine for all my instruments that have a CV exp ped) Quite a few reasons: 1. The EV5 has a dedicated cable, volume pedals don't. The EV5 cable is flimsy and not very long. Maybe that is ok for synth players but it is not a good option for everybody. If you are on stage 20 feet away from your rack, you would be screwed. If the drummer drops a cymbal on the cable you are also screwed. With a volume pedal there is just a jack so you can use any cable you want. It's just an ordinary mono patch cord, so if it breaks you can easily fix it at a gig. 2. There are a lot of options for volume pedals. People can choose whatever they want. Or they can easily use a mixer type fader or a pot mounted on their instrument or whatever. It's easy and you still only need a mono cable. We liked the idea of letting the user have flexibility to set things up how they wanted rather than being forced into a method by us. 3. We knew that most of the customers would not be keyboard players, who seem to be the main customers of EV5 pedals. They would mostly be guitarists and bassists and other instrumentalists who would most likely already own at least one volume pedal. We figured it would be nice if they could use something they had already instead of making them go into the keyboard section of the music store where they would feel awkward and out of place. 4. and if you really wanted to use an EV5 pedal, you could easily make/buy an adapter plug that just brought out the tip and shield to a mono plug. (or maybe it's ring and shield, whichever way ends up with the pedal going the right way....) kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com